It’s not officially announced yet but one-number provider Grand Central now has support for mobile devices, allowing Grand Central users to see their in-box, set preferences, etc., as long as your mobile device supports an Internet browser. Read More »
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As a gamer, Roger Ehrenberg is a fan of the Xbox 360; unfortunately for Peter Moore, however, his day job is President of a Wall Street analysis firm. And the investor’s perspective is decidedly at odds with the gamer’s. To wit, as he writes … Read More »
A little South by Southwest love, a lot of mainstream press ink, and some overloaded servers have convinced Obvious to turn Twitter, its little hotshot web and SMS service, into its own company. Evan Williams’ Obvious Corp. said this week that it’s spinning off the … Read More »
Updated: TechCrunch just reported that StumbleUpon is in talks to being acquired with AOL, Google and eBay as possible suitors. Though we have not been able to chat with folks from StumbleUpon, the social bookmarking discovery service, we have heard that eBay is the likely … Read More »
Qualcomm has bought the mobile WiMAX assets of TeleCIS Wireless for an undisclosed sum. Qualcomm tells Unstrung that it bought the company’s engineering resources for its “mobile broadband system knowledge and System On a Chip design experience.” Though, perhaps Qualcomm is also hedging … Read More »
Operation WiMAX is underway, and carriers are spending some serious moolah on building out the networks. South Korea launched a WiBro network last year and in the U.S. Sprint and Clearwire are working on mobile WiMAX services, too. It’s about time for some attention on … Read More »
Dash Navigation, the startup with a broadband and GPS car device, is looking for 2,000 testers for its product. They want gadget-loving consumers that spend a lot of time in their cars. Sounds like everyone we know. See if you qualify. Read More »
Last week, the Hamburg-based research firm Komjuniti published the first extensive survey of Resident attitudes toward real world marketing in Second Life. It’s been a long time in coming: a British branding agency established a forward operating base in SL back in early 2004 (and … Read More »
Having watched its clients get fat off the Internet boom 2.0, web metrics firm, Comscore is looking to go public and has filed an S-1 with the SEC. The Reston, Virginia-based company had revenues of just over $66 million in 2006, and net … Read More »
Freescale, a chip company that was carved out of Motorola says it has launched a new GPON subsystem that was co-developed with Alcatel-Lucent. ALU recently became one of the big suppliers of GPON gear to Verizon’s FiOS network, that is going through major … Read More »
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